A ‘holy’ conspiracy? Not quite
Saibal Mitra’s film A Holy Conspiracy is a definitive document of some of the important ideas competing for India’s soul today. In a little town called Hillolganj, the science…
Saibal Mitra’s film A Holy Conspiracy is a definitive document of some of the important ideas competing for India’s soul today. In a little town called Hillolganj, the science…
Ever too clever by half, he believes common decency is beneath him. In the event, common sense has taken leave of him. When, in July, 2021 Father Stan Swamy…
Positioning itself squarely against what Noam Chomsky calls the ‘Reactionary International’, the Progressive International seeks to unite the forces of sanity and progress around the world A news item…
In ‘La Strada’ and ‘Nights of Cabiria’, Fellini’s boundless formal and narrative energy is married to his profound humanism A still from ‘La Strada’ (1954) To most cinephiles,…
Satyajit Ray’s film is a heady cocktail of dystopia and comic fantasy Eleven years after Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (‘The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha’) came its sequel,…
Sadgati (1981) marked a watershed in Satyajit Ray’s career. He suffered a massive heart attack soon after…
Hobsbawms’s posthumous collection of essays, ‘Fractured Times- Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century’(2013), is a tour de force of cultural history Eric Hobsbawm ( 9 June, 1917 –…
We can choose not to see what we don’t want to – but we can do so only at our own peril As a boy, the German novelist Max von…
Nothing happening in the country right now seems to surprise us any more, so few people took any notice of a statement made recently by Injeti Srinivas, the Union Secretary…
Ever the clear-eyed realist, Lenin knew what the Revolution had failed to achieve. And this knowledge tormented him in the last weeks of his life. Vladimir Lenin in…
On his 90th birthday, a tribute to the man whose life more than anyone else’s tells us what it takes to be human Six weeks after 9/11, Noam Chomsky was…
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